Meg Whitman to Step Down as Hewlett Packard Enterprise C.E.O.<br />The Hewlett Packard Enterprise that has emerged, Ms. Whitman said this year, will be a streamlined company with “a crystal-clear mission” to<br />help its business customers achieve the payoff from new technologies, including cloud computing, data analytics and the internet of things.<br />Ms. Whitman went with Hewlett Packard Enterprise, which took the business software and hardware operations of the parent company.<br />Meg Whitman is stepping down as chief executive of Hewlett Packard Enterprise six years after joining its corporate predecessor<br />and leading a turnaround effort that split the Silicon Valley corporate icon in two.<br />In a $13.5 billion transaction completed this year, for example, Hewlett Packard Enterprise combined its services business with<br />Computer Sciences Corporation to create a separate company, listed on the New York Stock Exchange, called DXC Technology.<br />She cut costs at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, which sells computer servers<br />and data storage, networking, software and technology services to corporate customers, and pursued partnerships and deals to compete with larger rivals like IBM, Oracle, Cisco and Dell.<br />Ms. Whitman was one of the three finalists to succeed Travis Kalanick as chief executive at Uber this year after he left the company, which he co-founded, over concerns<br />that his leadership had helped it become a toxic workplace.
